Pokemon GO Players Have a Chance to Catch 6 Shiny Pokemon

Pokemon GO players have a very narrow window of opportunity to snag six shiny Pokemon they may have missed from past events, with a special end-of-year Community Day celebration that runs for just three hours. Pokemon GO has featured several of its monsters in Community Day celebrations throughout 2025, and this special event gives the fans one more chance at increaed odds to try to grab them in their shiny forms.

The Precious Paths season in Pokemon GO launched on December 2 and will run through March 6, 2026. The game has already been updated with new research tasks, and plenty of other surprises are in store for players over the course of the next three months, ranging from special event-themed Pokemon and seasonal bonuses to new experiences in Max Raids.

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Pokemon GO players have another shot at a Master Ball in Precious Paths, the upcoming season that is set to start in December 2025.

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December 6

Karrablast
Shelmet
Vanillite
Sprigatito
Fuecoco
Pawmi

December 7

Solosis
Red Flower Flabébé (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa)
Blue Flower Flabébé (Asia-Pacific region)
Yellow Flower Flabébé (The Americas)
Pikipek
Jangmo-o
Rookidee
Quaxly

In addition to those bonuses, four Community Day dates have already been announced for the season, with a special one to wrap up 2025 that takes place on December 6 and 7. The December Community Days in Pokemon GO will each last for only three hours, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time, and they’ll include several of the Pokemon that have been featured in previous Community Day events throughout the year. Like in all Community Day events, these specific Pokemon will see their spawn rates increased by a large margin, and they’ll also each be able to learn a special Featured Attack that was included in their original Community Day launches. For Saturday, December 6, these special Pokemon are Karrablast, Shelmet, Vanillite, Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Pawmi.

In addition to their increased spawn rates, the Community Day event improves the chances of a Pokemon being shiny, giving players who love catching rare variants the same shiny hunting odds as all previous Community Day events in 2025. During regular times, the odds of finding a shiny Pokemon are around 1 in 500, or 0.2 percent. However, Community Days typically bump up those odds in a big way, boosting them to 1 in 25, or 4 percent.

These same rates will apply to the six Pokemon singled out for the event on December 7, which include Solosis, Pikipek, Jangmo-o, Rookidee, and.Quaxly. The special Sunday Community Day Pokemon will also provide a revival of Pokemon GO‘s Flabebe Community Day event that took place in September, offering three different color variations of Flabebe based on players’ location in the world. Players on the American continents will be able to collect Yellow Flower Flabebe, while its Blue Flower variant will be limited to the Asia-Pacific Region and the central portion of the globe will get increased odds of seeing Red Flower Flabebe, all of which follows the game’s standard region-locking protocols for that Pokemon. However, players in any region may be able to encounter Flabebe with orange or white flowers, if they’re lucky.

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Players will still have a chance to catch any of the above-listed Pokemon from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on both days, but their spawn rates and shiny chance in Pokemon GO will not be nearly as high as during the special event times. In addition, there are four special Pokemon that will get the same boosted rates and special move chance as the others in the event, but they’ll only be available for a 10-minute window at the end of each day’s event, appearing from 4:50 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time. The four Pokemon crammed into that tiny amount of time are Machop, Eevee, Totodile, and Ralts, so anyone desperate for the chance to pick up one of their shiny firms should plan accordingly.